On 2011-02-09 10:25 +0100, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>
>> The point is precisely to deal with the case when the user has not made
>> any change. And for this you would have to move /etc/sudoers aside in
>> "preinst upgrade" if it matches the md5sum of an unmodified file.
>
> Thanks, Raphaël. The main problem with this solution is that it makes
> it hard to recover in the case of an interrupted upgrade (think "power
> failure"). I don't think it makes sense to force the admin to reboot
> in single user mode in such cases if it is avoidable.
>
>> But dealing with the scenario above could be a new feature of
>> dpkg-maintscript-helper.
>>
>> Jonathan, do you feel like implementing this? :)
>
> I'll look into what needs to happen in dpkg proper.
>
> Bdale, if nothing happens in that front soon, the simplest workaround
> might be to teach sudo to use ucf. Not a dependency I like, but so it
> goes. Would you be interested in a patch doing that?
Before anyone delves into this, have a look at bug #605130 which is
exactly the problem that was solved by making /etc/sudoers a conffile.
Cheers,
Sven
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